Religions, traditions and cultural practices influence the ways in which human remains are managed. In Islam, human dignity is a right given by God to all people, who are referred to in the Qur’an as …
03-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – Health-care providers and patients have suffered through thousands of attacks on health-care systems in the roughly five years since the UN Security Council demanded an end …
30-04-2021 The Colombian Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reaffirm the importance of …
The ICRC has been in Yemen since 1962 and has a permanent presence in several governorates. Since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Yemen in 2015, the ICRC has been assisting victims of armed …
What do the eyes in the sky see? What can they guess? How can they help us? And how can they put us at risk? Building on the fourth Digital Dilemmas Dialogue , we have invited experts from the …
The document presents a list of questions (a checklist or compatibility study) that cover some of the main challenges related to the protection of health care during armed conflict and other …
To successfully reduce the occurrence of incidents of violence against health care and mitigate their impact, adequate rules in domestic legislation and regulations are required. This document is …
Statement Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the UNSC Open Debate on the Protection of Objects Indispensable to the survival of the …
A 12 sq m room in Ghazni city, Afghanistan, is a world of milestones for 51-year-old Gulshah. Here, she sees how her family learnt to survive in an unfamiliar environment, her nine children growing …
"Would you believe me if I said that I feel jealous when I see parents visiting the graves of their sons? I keep asking myself: 'don't I deserve even this?'" Ashot's* son fought in last year's …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
